Originated among working class youths in the UK in the 1960's. Originally influenced by West Indian / Jamaican rude boys and British mods. Fred Perry, Ben Sherman shirts. Braces. Doc Martens. Bleach splotted jeans representing camouflage, always Levi, Lee or Wrangler. And for the girls, pretty much the same with some fishnets thrown in...sexy. Harrington jackets and Denim/Donkey jackets where their fav. Some followed rasicm (neo-nazis/bnp) combated by us anti-rasict skin heads. Things started to become less about race hate in 1986. Laces on their DMs showed diffrent gang-types aka yellow= anti rasicm, red= rasict. Look to Gavin Watson a skinhead photographer for amazing pictures from that time era.
